A model of the kind of text one needs for lecture courses: the translation is extremely readable and made even more accessible by intelligent printing decisions (on dividing the text, spacing for clarification, etc.), the notes are kept to a minimum but appear when they are really needed for comprehension and are truly informative. And the introduction admirably presents both basic information and a sense of current scholarly opinion. --S. G. ...
Originally published by Southern Methodist U. Press, 1986. Includes new material on recent events (Iran/Contra affair, invasion of Grenada) and on the current situation in Nicaragua, the Persian Gulf, and El Salvador. Cloth edition, $39.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
This book is concerned with a class of discrete-time stochastic control processes known as controlled Markov processes (CMP's), also known as Markov decision processes or Markov dynamic programs. Starting in the mid-1950swith Richard Bellman, many contributions to CMP's have been made, and applications to engineering, statistics and operations research, among other areas, have also been developed. The purpose of this book is to present some re...
With characteristic clarity, Marty explores religious pluralism in a society that, though frequently acclaimed or decried as 'secular, ' finds modern religious varieties flourishing." --Library Journal
In this collection of essays, 13 contributors explore the intersection of feminist and medical anthropology in 11 case studies of women in traditional and emergent roles as healers in diverse parts of the world.
Few nineteenthcentury western figures had the wide range of experiences and acquaintances that Charles A. Siringo had. Stubborn and egotistical yet honest and freespirited, cowboy and private eye Charlie Siringo wrote several autobiographies that captured the interest of thousands of readers and contributed to the myth of the cowboylawman as an archetypal western hero. Charles Siringo was born on the Texas Gulf Coast in 1855. At an early age h...
This is a masterly narrative of the land of Israel from 70 to 640 C.E. by an eminent Israeli historian. It is a comprehensive record of Jewish life under Roman rule: economic conditions and social welfare, Jewish law and courts, political repression and resistance, religious controversies, the Diaspora and relations between the national center in Palestine and the communities abroad. Alon describes the rebuilding of national life after the def...
This volume looks at the technical, strategic, and human aspects of the debate that led to the decision to build the first hydrogen bomb. Based on participants experience of "Project Superbomb", and declassified papers the book explains the background to this acceleration of the nuclear arms race.
This collection of papers is taken from a workshop organized to consider the requirments for a software engineering environment - a programming environment that aids the professional programmer in completion of the tasks necessary to build and maintain large complex software systems.
This volume concentrates on those aspects of the technology MRI, both instrumentation and algorithms, that deal with the diverse applications highlighting the technical hurdles that have to be (and have been) overcome in making these applications possible.
This is a completely revised and updated edition of this text designed to introduce students to the historical, intellectual and social context of computers. Although the majority of the chapters in this edition are new, the original criteria for selecting essays has been retained.
The art in this book provide a rare opportunity to experience the work of an artist and the reality of the living psyche. The patient/artist began analysis at the age of 36 with the chief complaint that, in spite of a successful career in the arts, he had lost his sense of purpose in life and was on the verge of despair. The pictures were done over a period of five years during the course of Jungian analysis. They touch on all the major themes...
In this pathbreaking anthology, Marie Harris and Kathleen Aguero have brought together poems representing a diversity of American voices and identities--among them Native, Asian, and black Americans, Chicano and Puerto Rican writers, gay and lesbian poets, writers of working-class background, and poets writing from American prisons."It is not in our common interest, " write the editors, "to pretend that a single voice speaks for all our citize...
Each of the eleven chapters in this volume discusses a different model of cognition ranging from image analysis through word recognition to communication failure in dialogue, and covers the spectrum of techniques from the purely symbolic to the purely connectionist.
This volume describes organizational and administrative principles which have led to succesful applications of human factors and to the growth and diversification of human factors as groups.
These volumes review late 1980s/early 1990s state-of-the-art developments in computer-aided design and analysis techniques. Contributions from researchers and practitioners include discussions of parallel algorithms and fundamental operations in cryptography, systolic arrays and pipelined designs.
An in-depth description and analysis of some of the most important tools and techniques that are available to the professional artificial intelligence programmer, researcher, or student are presented in this text.
